Notices of Dassel-Cokato School closings and other school emergencies will be broadcast again this year over:

WCCO (830 AM) Minneapolis

KRWC (1360 AM) Buffalo

KDUZ (1260AM) Hutchinson

KLFD (1410 AM) Litchfield

KARP (106.9 FM) Hutchinson

Channel 11 KARE TV

Volunteers Needed & Appreciated!

When you become involved in our school, at home or in the building, your children will thrive and our school truly does become a better school because of you! There are many ways to volunteer at Cokato Elementary.

If you are interested in volunteering or would like to learn more about the opportunities, please contact Katie Rogers, volunteer coordinator, at 320-286-4100 ext. 1369.

Kids NIght at Local Dairy Queen

Every Wednesday is Kids Night at the Cokato Dairy Queen. Art made by one of the elementary classes will be on display at the DQ for the community to enjoy. The DQ will donate 10% of the sales from 5:00-8:00 p.m. that night to our elementary schools. What a fun and tasty way to contribute to our school. Thank you, Dairy Queen!

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Fire Safety

Last week during Fire Safety week our 3rd and 4th grade students had visitors from our Cokato Fire Department to share with us fire safety tips and what equipment they use to help fight fires. Our K-2nd grade students also had the opportunity to visit the brand new fire station in Cokato. Thanks to all the volunteer fire fighters for making it a great day to learn about fire safety and their time to keep our community safe!

LET'S CELEBRATE!

Under the new MDE North Star Reporting System, Cokato Elementary was recognized for performing in the highest 5% of the state overall in Math growth!!! This information can be found under the MDE website - Data Center - Minnesota Report Card - North Star - Cokato Elementary - view the list of schools recognized for success - open the downloaded PDF - scroll down grid.

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to the AMAZING staff at Cokato Elementary!! Congratulations to the hard-working students who have practiced, practiced, and practiced all the skill building so that when they take the MCA test in 3rd and 4th grade they know how to share their talents!! WAY TO GO! Parents, THANK YOU for being our BEST partners in educating these great young minds!! We all know, it takes a village to EDUCATE * INNOVATE * and help students SUCCEED!!!

Crossing Safely

Students are focusing on safety at Cokato Elementary. Kids are learning about Bus Safety and how to cross the street safely.

FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES

Save these items and help us raise additional funds for our school!

Box Tops

Look for products with the Box Top for Education coupon. Each coupon is worth 10 cents! Please check the expiration date and trim the coupon. Sometimes we will have a special event for the program. The students enjoy collecting for a special goal. Keep on clipping! See boxtops4education.com for online shopping, saving and clipping, too!

Food Club/Cash Wise Labels for Learning

Labels for learning is an easy rewards program. There is a separate printing attached to your receipt with the points for redemption. Please clip this, check the expiration date, and send into school with your student. (If you would like to collect for a while, count the points and then tally and send that to us--yea!) We need to send in the points in bundles of 2,500.

Pop Can Tops/Tabs

Yes, we still collect the tabs from the top of cans! We have a wonderful little collection “house” and the tabs are collected and turned into the local McDonalds for the Ronald McDonald House in the metro area. These can be turned in any time!

Empty Printer Cartridges, etc.

Over 25 million pounds of empty printer cartridges and cell phones are thrown in landfills each year. Send those old cell phones and empty laser, inkjet, fax and copier cartridges into Cokato Elementary. You will help the environment, too!

Shoparoo

This is a fairly new fundraising option for us (started last year!). Their theme is: Shop, Snap and Earn. This is a free app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Select Cokato Elementary as your school choice, take a picture of your receipt--shop anywhere, buy anything. For more information please check out shoparoo.com to learn more.

Keeping Cokato Elementary Students, Parents, and Visitors Safe

If you ever visit Cokato Elementary in the morning before school or in the afternoon right after school you can see many children, parents, and families walking to and from Cokato Elementary. Due to all of the traffic these visits create, we sometimes get double parking or students who walk from cars across the road; both create dangerous travel for all of our Cokato Elementary students, parents, and visitors.

In cooperation with the Wright County Sheriff’s Department, Cokato Elementary will be working to

monitor traffic around Cokato Elementary School. This monitoring effort will be focused on times before school and after school to make sure we continue to keep everyone who attends and visits Cokato Elementary safe! Our efforts are to make sure the traffic is not double parked and students are not walking from cars to cross the street where there is no supervision or cross walks.

Parents and caregivers who are driving their children to school or picking them up after school must drop them off at Door B and along the curb of the Cokato Elementary building side. Please do not allow your children to cross the street in front of traffic due to safety of all children.

FRIDAY IS CHARGER DAY

As a continuation of our school pride theme, all students and staff are encouraged to wear the Dassel-Cokato Charger colors on Fridays throughout the year.

The colors are blue and white.

DC CHARGER SONG LYRICS

Here come the DC Chargers,

fighting to keep our honor;

Cheer for the DC Chargers,

we’ll win this game! (Rah, Rah, Rah!)

Here’s to the blue and white;

with all our might we’ll fight.

Onward to victory,

we’ll win this game tonight! (Fight!)

GO CHARGERS!!!

Congratulations to Cokato Elementary!

Cokato Elementary was named a “2013 Celebration School” by the Minnesota Department of Education for improving student achievement and decreasing the achievement gap between our students! Cokato Elementary was one of 48 schools in Minnesota named for this honor. Thank you to all of the students, staff, and parents for your hard work in helping us achieve this award!

Awarded School of Excellence

1991-1992

2004-2005

Cokato Elementary is a School of Excellence because...

we believe that parents are our partners and that this partnership is vital to the success and well-being of our children

our learning environment is safe, comfortable, and nurturing

we focus on helping students become readers who love to learn about the world around them

Cokato Elementary Fundraising Opportunities

Parent Portal Accounts

Infinite Campus is used to maintain all our student and family information. An exciting component of this software is the Parent Portal, which will allow parents better access to their children's grades, lunch account balances, standardized test scores, attendance records, contact information, and immunization records.